docker-compose image does not install `graphql`

[Joshfindit]

1. Cloned the repo
2. docker-compose up
3. It failed because the api container did not start
4. Did docker-compose run api bash, then npm install graphql
5. api container now starts

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root@0ef28cc3b210:/app# npm start

> [email protected] start /app
> npm run build && node build/index.js


> [email protected] build /app
> babel src --out-dir build && shx cp .env build 2>/dev/null || : && shx cp src/schema.graphql build

Successfully compiled 5 files with Babel (1136ms).
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:818
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'graphql'
Require stack:
- /app/node_modules/apollo-server-errors/dist/index.js
- /app/node_modules/apollo-server-core/dist/runHttpQuery.js
- /app/node_modules/apollo-server-core/dist/index.js
- /app/node_modules/apollo-server-express/dist/index.js
- /app/build/index.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:667:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/apollo-server-errors/dist/index.js:4:19)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:999:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/app/node_modules/apollo-server-errors/dist/index.js',
    '/app/node_modules/apollo-server-core/dist/runHttpQuery.js',
    '/app/node_modules/apollo-server-core/dist/index.js',
    '/app/node_modules/apollo-server-express/dist/index.js',
    '/app/build/index.js'
  ]
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `npm run build && node build/index.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-08-28T11_48_13_418Z-debug.log



root@0ef28cc3b210:/app# npm install graphql
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/nodemon/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

+ [email protected]
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root@0ef28cc3b210:/app# npm start

> [email protected] start /app
> npm run build && node build/index.js


> [email protected] build /app
> babel src --out-dir build && shx cp .env build 2>/dev/null || : && shx cp src/schema.graphql build

Successfully compiled 5 files with Babel (744ms).
GraphQL server ready at http://0.0.0.0:4001/graphql

[nola-it]

I have solved this by updating the Dockerfile for the api project adding the following:

RUN npm i graphql

So that my api Dockerfile looks like:

FROM node:12

RUN mkdir -p /app
WORKDIR /app

COPY package.json .
RUN npm install
RUN npm i graphql
COPY . .

EXPOSE 4001

CMD ["npm", "start"]

[guglielmo]

Added "graphql": "^15.5.1" to dependencies in package.json and it seems to be working, too.